Mikko Niemi#
| Membership Number: | 7222 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/mikko-niemi |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4550-2189 |
| X: | @ProfNiemi |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikko-niemi-14231b208 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Director, Individualized Drug Therapy Research Program, University of Helsinki
- 2011 - present Head Physician, HUS Diagnostic Center, Helsinki University Hospital
- 2010 - present Professor of Pharmacogenetics, University of Helsinki
- 2009 - 2010 Acting Clinical Lecturer of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Helsinki
- 2009 Acting Professor of Pharmacogenetics, University of Helsinki
- 2004 - 2009 various positions as a researcher, specializing physician or general practitioner at the University of Helsinki and health care organizations in Finland
- 2003 - 2004 Postdoctoral fellow, Dr Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Pharmacokinetics
- Clinical pharmacology
- Pharmacogenetics
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Orion Research Foundation Award
- 2016 ERC Consolidator Grant
- 2015 Leon I. Goldberg Young Investigator Award, American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- 2014 Invited member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- 2011 ERC Starting Grant
- 2010 Anders Jahre Prize for Young Scientists, University of Oslo
- 2009 Young investigator award, Finnish Medical Society Duodecim
